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Is Google a Monopoly?

Posted in Economic Regulation, Economics, Monopoly, tagged , , , on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Understanding Monopolies Our last post on monopolies gathered good reader interest, so we thought we would delve into the topic of monopolies a bit more. The question many people ask is “Is Google A Monopoly?” For some reason, this seems of more interest to many people that asking say…if Bank of America is a monopoly. [...]

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Why Corporation Love Monopolies

Posted in Economic Regulation, Economics, Monopoly, tagged on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Monopoly..the favorite game of corporations. When not playing it, or trying to become a monopoly, they like to get onto television shows talking about how much they love free markets.Why Discuss Monopolies? Of the people that visit this blog, a large percentage of them arrive at it through a single keyword “monopoly.” This is surprising [...]

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Nationalizing Banking – Tim Berners Lee Style

Posted in Monopoly, Mortgages, Nationalized Banking, Videos, tagged , , on January 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »

This excellent video series on money and banking from moneyasdebt explains the history of banking and what is known as fractional banking. Watching this series will help greatly in reading the article below. If you don’t have time to watch it, please read some of the important points below before continuing to the bottom of [...]

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Letter to Senators on Financial Bail Out

Posted in Monopoly, Political Responsiveness, tagged , on December 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The politicians are clearly not following the public will on the issue of the bail out. Furthermore, it appears that this financial crisis is being used to expropriate taxpayer money in addition to illegally changing tax law and further concentrating banking power in the country. We thought this was a well written letter from a [...]

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Stock Market Falling

Posted in Currency, Economic Bubbles, Monopoly, Stock Market on September 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Years of focus on the stock market and and the mechanization of how to increase it and invest it in have preventing many from asking what it is. This article is being written in September of 2008 when yet another series of financial mismanagement and corruption blunders have caused the stock market to swoon and [...]

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How Stocks Promote Monopolies

Posted in Deliberately False Financial Information, Markets and Efficiency, Monopoly, Stock Market on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Are US capital markets fair? That is do they offer an equal, or roughly equal chance for individuals and companies to raise money? There is a generally accepted view that stock is a good thing. The two most common concepts that are commonly used to promote the idea of stock ownership is that: Stocks rise [...]

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Do You Have Enough Assets to Get “A” Advice?

Posted in Investment Advice, Monopoly, Stock Market on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The best advice is hard to come by in financial advisement. The US system makes sure that this restricted resource is allocated to very specific groups. Furthermore these groups are already the most monied interests in the country. The resulting tiered returns in the market demonstrate that the US investment apparatus is designed to give [...]

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Milton Friedman – Economist/Intellectual Prostitute

Posted in Economic History, Economics, Misleading Financial Institutions, Monopoly, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2008 | 14 Comments »

Abstract There is no more damaging academic in the 20th century than Milton Friedman. His philosophies caused widespread economic problems and inequality not only in his home country but internationally as well. Milton Friedman is considered a giant of 20th century economics, and is probably the most influential economist of the past 100 years. The [...]

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